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SUA Outsmarting Outbreaks Challenge

Helping Tanzania, United Republic of
$12 500 USD + AWS credits
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Breaking all zeros benchmark
Help · 1 Jan 2025, 02:50 · 2

Hey guys, it's my first time doing a Zindi competition and I'm having trouble even breaking the all-zeros prediction benchmark score (~8.62 mae). Can somebody please give some tips and advice? Thank you

Discussion 2 answers

Use ensemble models, conduct eda, feature engineer and tune your model

1 Jan 2025, 04:10
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use optuna for hyper paramter tuning. use cross validation. Remove unnecessary features. Use one-hot encoding for categorical variables.

1 Jan 2025, 17:25
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